This just reminded me of one of the first times my husband and I hung out after we started dating. We were in high school, just sitting on my couch watching TV at like 11pm or something. Of course there was nothing on at that hour, so we were channel surfing for awhile when I spotted Dr Ruth's show. I guess 17-year-old (and very prude) me thought it would come off as cool and sexy to playfully suggest watching a sex advice show "because it would be funny!"

@atipofthehat If the goal of wine is to loosen into sexytimes, put in MORE ALCOHOL! Drinking a whole bottle by my onesie to get all inhibition-less just means I hop up to use the restroom every 30 minutes. Because that is a lot of liquid. Dr. Ruth... don't make our bladders interfere with love. These sleepy ladies are begging you.

@atipofthehat --I have an aversion to the word genitori because it reminds me of the word genitals, which I don't like to associate with my genitori. How repressed am I? (Risposta: molto.) P.S. Good lord, every time you edit your comment it deletes your html! Gotta be quick and careful, I guess.

@atipofthehat It just dawned on me that it might be the fact that I'm a raging lightweight that prevents this from making any sense to me. One beer with a heavy dinner? mmmm pleasant warmth. More beer? R;FISHGWAEGERGILFBJS

@Third Wave Housewife No! I don't see the need to imbibe in order to release my inhibitions. Maybe it's just that I don't have any? I love the taste of a gin martini, and drink them for the pure pleasure of it, but they get me very very tipsy and I'd never drink one if I planned on having sex afterwards. I generally just like to be coddled after a martini or two, eventually guided home for a good night's sleep afterwards. (Now everyone who sees me drinking a martini with my BF will go, "Aw... poor fella, not gonna get lucky tonight." Haha.) A tiny glass of saké is okay, though, if I feel like doing the date night ritual of a cocktail before getting sexy. But generally, I do not drink and "drive" my BF. ;)

@stonefruit
I actually don't have that many fun stories! She (understandably) doesn't like to mix work with her personal life that much, so it's not like she's handing out sex advice right and left. She's a very sweet woman, and she can never say no to anything free, so she has like bags of pens and hotel shampoos and stacks of books that people give her, which she then gives to us to get rid of. And I can tell people that I spit up on Dr. Ruth as a baby, which is a fun story I guess!

Dr. Ruth, I get your point, but what's to stop me from drinking twice as much to get to the right level of drunk?
Then I'll be sloppy AND having to piss like a racehorse every five minutes, neither of which make for sexy sex outside of Cancun Spring Break '99.

This is a major plot point on the Real Housewives of Vancouver. One of the housewives creates a wine called Rehab with a lower percentage of alcohol so you can drink more without getting as sleepy/hungover/fat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2huk-Vopy8k

Actually, ngl, I'd be curious to try. I'm on so many crazy-person drugs that I can only have a teeny-tiny amount of 'regular' wine (and honestly, shouldn't really have any) and it gets me as tipsy as 2+ glasses used to pre-meds. It would be nice to have the option of having a glass of wine with dinner (or "out on the town") without as much worry about getting smashed.

Has anyone tried that "skinny grape" wine? Turns out, reason it's so "skinny" is that it has less alcohol (which has 7 cal/gm compared to carbohydrates' 4). Hey, if I wanted to drink a whole bottle of nothing and be sober I'd drink water, amirite?